Established: In the Executive Office of the President by EO 9327,
April 7, 1943, under the chairmanship of the Director of the
Bureau of the Budget, and including representatives of the War
Department, Department of the Navy, War Production Board, Federal
Works Agency, War Manpower Commission, and National Housing
Agency.

Functions: Coordinated federal, state, and local government
activities in congested production areas, especially with regard
to plant and site availability, local labor supply, and
transportation, housing, social service, recreational, and
commercial facilities. Designated critical areas. Prescribed
binding policies and programs for federal agencies involved.

Abolished: By act of June 28, 1944 (58 Stat. 535), effective
December 31, 1944, with liquidation to be completed by June 30,
1945.

Finding Aids: Leo Pascal and Jeanne McDonald, comps., Preliminary
Inventory of the Records of the Committee for Congested
Production Areas, PI 128 (1960).

Security-Classified Records: This record group may include
material that is security-classified.

Related Records:
Records of the Public Health Service, 1912-1968, RG 90.
General Records of the Federal Works Agency, RG 162.
Records of the War Production Board, RG 179.
Records of the Office of Price Administration, RG 188.
General Records of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development, RG 207.
Records of the War Manpower Commission, RG 211.
Records of the Office of Community War Services, RG 215.
Records of the Office of Defense Transportation, RG 219.
Records of the Committee on Fair Employment Practice, RG 228.
General Records of the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare, RG 235.
Records of the Office of the Housing Expediter, RG 252.

Bibliographic note: Web version based on Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States. Compiled by Robert B. Matchette et al. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1995.
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